Bombardment of Algiers (1688)
The bombardment of Algiers in 1688 was a military expedition ordered by Louis XIV against the Regency of Algiers in order to enforce the peace treaty of 1683 which had been violated by Algerian pirates. The squadron, comprising 31 ships and 10 bomb galiots, was commanded by Jean II d'Estrées.[1][2][3]
| Bombardment of Algiers, 1688 | |||||||||
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| Part of French-Algerian War 1681-88 | |||||||||
 The bombardment of Algiers, 1688 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 France |
 Regency of Algiers | ||||||||
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| Jean II d'Estrées | Mezzo Morto Hüseyin Pasha | ||||||||
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31 warships 10 bomb galiots | unknown | ||||||||
The Algerian-French agreement was soon canceled due to a clash between Algerian sailors and French sailors, so France decided once again to exploit the incident to invade Algeria, where it commanded a large fleet besieging Algeria, where the leader of the campaign sent a threat to Day Hussein mezzo Morto, warning him against harming the French, as happened in 1683 AD.Otherwise, he will kill all his Algerian prisoners, and what was the trampling of Hussein, except that the French consul presented to the cannon and threw it at him, saying to him, “If his father was in captivity, he would not hesitate to defend Algeria, and like its predecessors, this campaign also failed and The French ships became an easy prey for the Algerian sailors. After that, the French returned, So France went and asked to make a treaty with Algeria and also asked the Ottoman Empire for help in order to stop the war. The Day Hussein was forced to accept, but the majority of the sea captains were opposed to renewing the agreement because of the repeated French betrayals, which prompted Hussein to resign, He became the commander of the Ottoman fleet, and the one who rules Algeria in his place is Hajj Shaaban
References
- Kaddache, Mahfoud (1982). L'Algérie des Algériens. Algiers: Société nationale d'édition et de diffusion. p. 417. ISBN 978-9-961-96621-1.
- Geoffrey Symcox (6 December 2012). The Crisis of French Sea Power, 1688–1697: From the Guerre d’Escadre to the Guerre de Course. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 74. ISBN 978-94-010-2072-5.
- Mouloud Gaïd (1975). L'Algérie sous les Turcs. Maison tunisienne de l'édition. p. 148. Retrieved 22 April 2018.